The COVID Diaries – 79 15th June
The Independent has reported today:
“Donald Trump is blaming an uptick in coronavirus cases and hospitalisations solely on an increase in testing rather than his push for governors to reopen their states even as the sometimes-deadly disease continues to spread.
“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” the president said Monday during an event for seniors at the White House.
A number of states have reported record numbers of sick people requiring hospital stays since the pandemic begin, even as they continue steps to get their economies open again.
But the president and his team have denied that his insistence governors get their states open is causing the increase in cases.
The Monday remark was mere the latest time the president has made strange comments about Covid-19 testing.
He has consistently sounded inconsistent messages, bragging that the US has tested more people than other countries while also complaining that the number of known infections (2.1m) and deaths (over 115,000) are so high because of that testing rate.”